Spring 1986

Morris Freedman’s “Moma and Me” Susan Mernit’s “The State of the Short Story” George Watson’s “Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard: A Playful Look At London Since 1956” Mary Davidson Mcconahay’s “ ‘Heidelberry Braids’ and Yankee Politesse: Jean Stafford and Robert Lowell Reconsidered” Stories by Morris Freedman, Susan Mernit, George Watson, and Mary Davidson Mcconahay Poetry by Aleda Shirley, Sarah Provost, Peter Cooley, and Len Roberts
Spring 1986

Volume 62, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1986

Criticism and History

By William E. Cain
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 1986

Plato At Scratch Daniel’s

By Edward Falco
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 1986

Twice Shy

By Margaret Edwards
FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 1986

Norfolk, 1969

By Christopher Tilghman
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

And Now

By David Ignatow
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Downhill All the Way

By Jeffrey Meyers
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Packing the Supreme Court

By David M. O'Brien
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The Image

By David Ignatow
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Hostage to Fortune

By Aleda Shirley
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Reprint, Spring 1986

/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Inland, Thinking of Waves

By Sarah Provost
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The Little Jesus of the Barren

By Laszlo Nagy
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

An Incompleteness

By Sarah Provost
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

A Headboard to Headboards

By Aleda Shirley
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Van Gogh, “Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saint-Marie”

By Peter Cooley
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1986

/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Van Gogh, “Stairway At Auvers”

By Peter Cooley
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Between Belief and Unbelief

By Herbert J. Levine
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Moma and Me

By Morris Freedman
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Building the Barn Door

By Len Roberts
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The Green Room, Spring 1986

/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Cookbook, Spring 1986

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Following the Cat

By Len Roberts
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Art and Politics In Yeats, Auden, and Eliot

By Vincent Fitzpatrick
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The State of the Short Story

By Susan Mernit
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The Trains

By Len Roberts
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

A Humanist for All Seasons

By Anthony Netboy
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard: A Playful Look At London Since 1956

By George Watson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

In My Childhood

By David Ignatow
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

The New Historical Romance

By David Levin
/ ISSUE: Spring 1986

“Heidelberry Braids” and Yankee Politesse: Jean Stafford and Robert Lowell Reconsidered

By Mary Davidson Mcconahay

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